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Received:  by CIOS Mailer; Wednesday 9 Jun 1999 12:44:32
Date:          Wed, 9 Jun 99 12:33 -0400
To: "Multiple recipients of COMGRADS" 
From: "Jennifer R. Mercieca" 
Subject:       Re: Too Quiet!

Hi everyone--

Thanks for all of your comments.  The beauty of this forum is that we
really CAN help each other--experience means a lot. 

 I have more questions however--if you don't mind.  I still want to know
how I will know a good dissertation topic when I see it.  My problem is
that I am interested in everything, well, not everything, but a vast area
of stuff.  I've come with about 5 topics in the last month that I think
would be cool to do.  Some of them are more philosophical, some are about
argument, some are about mass comm effects, some are about political
theory.  Sometimes my advisor has to remind me that I'm in Speech
Comm...Will I just wake up one day and say Ah Ha!  (no reference to
one-hit wonder Swedish band intended).  Or, is there some systematic way
of figuring this out.

Another problem that I have is that I'm nearly done with classes but I
want to keep taking them because there is so much out there that I still
don't know.  It's not that I'm afraid of going on to the next step, I'm
really not.  Is this normal?  Please, somebody tell me this is the sign of
a good scholar or something.  Because I envision myself taking classes
until I'm done with my diss.  Do people do that?  I haven't seen much of
it around my school.

thanks again,

jen

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~ Jennifer R. Mercieca                                            ~
* Department of Speech Communication                              *
~ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                      ~
* 244 Lincoln Hall                                                *
~ Urbana, IL.  61801                                              ~
* mercieca@uiuc.edu                                               *
~  "If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we   ~
*   belong to each other" Mother Teresa                           *
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